Haikyu!! continues to lead the Japanese box office, scoring more and more milestones through its third weekend, coming in at second place behind the newest Doraemon film and blowing past the 5 billion yen achievement as the film sets to give out more theatrical gifts to those who see the film in Japan and hold a special screening later this week. As of March 3, the film’s 17th day in theaters, Kogyo Tsushin reports that the first Haikyu!! Final anime film has brought in 5.1 billion yen (US$33.94 million) with 3.59 million tickets sold. Haikyu!! Final ’s first anime film passed the 5 billion yen milestone on the 17th day, doing it in the same time frame as other popular films such as Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween , Code Blue and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker , all of which finished just shy of 10 billion yen. On the flip side, Frozen also made...
- 3/4/2024
- by Daryl Harding
- Crunchyroll
Everyone says: “I love you,” at least in Lille, where Japanese star Tomohisa Yamashita – in town to promote “Drops of God,” which premieres on Apple TV+ on April 21 – brought fans to tears. With one admitting that thanks to his 2005 series “Nobuta Wo Produce,” where he played the character of Akira, she decided not to commit suicide 14 years ago.
“You saved my life,” she said.
In between interacting with a clearly overwhelmed audience, Japanese singer, dancer, talk show host and actor discussed his multifaceted career, one that started when he was just 11 years old.
“When I was a child, there was a series on TV and the main role was played by a teen. I realized there were stars my age and reached out to agencies for auditions.”
In 2004, he joined boy band News.
“The producers brought us together and said: ‘O.K, you will be in a band. It was so sudden.
“You saved my life,” she said.
In between interacting with a clearly overwhelmed audience, Japanese singer, dancer, talk show host and actor discussed his multifaceted career, one that started when he was just 11 years old.
“When I was a child, there was a series on TV and the main role was played by a teen. I realized there were stars my age and reached out to agencies for auditions.”
In 2004, he joined boy band News.
“The producers brought us together and said: ‘O.K, you will be in a band. It was so sudden.
- 3/19/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat – an unprecedented nuclear disaster. (Source: Netflix)
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming 8 episode drama on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This series is tentatively set for release sometime in 2023. It is helmed by co-directors Hideo Nakata and Masaki Nishiura. The former is known for his horror movies Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999) and Dark Water (2002); while the latter has extensive experience in Japanese dramas and TV movies including both seasons and the movie for Fuji TV’s Code Blue franchise. The Days will feature Koji Yakusho (13 Assassins), Yutaka Takenouchi (Shin Godzilla), Fumiyo Kohinata (The Confidence Man Jp movies). A subtitled trailer is available here.
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming 8 episode drama on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This series is tentatively set for release sometime in 2023. It is helmed by co-directors Hideo Nakata and Masaki Nishiura. The former is known for his horror movies Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999) and Dark Water (2002); while the latter has extensive experience in Japanese dramas and TV movies including both seasons and the movie for Fuji TV’s Code Blue franchise. The Days will feature Koji Yakusho (13 Assassins), Yutaka Takenouchi (Shin Godzilla), Fumiyo Kohinata (The Confidence Man Jp movies). A subtitled trailer is available here.
- 2/24/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Ken Watanabe helps Ansel Elgort report on the story of life — provided the intrepid journalist doesn’t meet a grim fate along the way — in the trailer for the HBO Max crime drama Tokyo Vice.
Premiering Thursday, April 7 with three episodes (followed by two episodes dropping every Thursday thereafter), Tokyo Vice is loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat. Filmed on location in Tokyo, the series follows Adelstein’s (played by Baby Driver‘s Ansel Elgort) daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ‘90s, where nothing...
Premiering Thursday, April 7 with three episodes (followed by two episodes dropping every Thursday thereafter), Tokyo Vice is loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat. Filmed on location in Tokyo, the series follows Adelstein’s (played by Baby Driver‘s Ansel Elgort) daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ‘90s, where nothing...
- 3/14/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have the full two hours on USA, so let’s see if Nxt can kick All Elite Wrestling’s ass…or not. I love monkeys!
Match #1: Adam Cole def. Matt Riddle – Nxt Championship Match The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Adam Cole’s precious Nxt Championship remains safe around his waist. An exhausted Cole looked absolutely stunned after a grueling match with Riddle, especially given his far less than peak condition. The leader of The Undisputed Era fought through a broken right wrist thanks to a Fujiwara Armbar at the hands of Riddle last week. Riddle showed off his superior grappling skills early on, taking The Panama City Playboy down repeatedly and seemingly overwhelming the champion. However, Cole proved he was game with comparably astute skills. The opponents showed they had...
Match #1: Adam Cole def. Matt Riddle – Nxt Championship Match The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Adam Cole’s precious Nxt Championship remains safe around his waist. An exhausted Cole looked absolutely stunned after a grueling match with Riddle, especially given his far less than peak condition. The leader of The Undisputed Era fought through a broken right wrist thanks to a Fujiwara Armbar at the hands of Riddle last week. Riddle showed off his superior grappling skills early on, taking The Panama City Playboy down repeatedly and seemingly overwhelming the champion. However, Cole proved he was game with comparably astute skills. The opponents showed they had...
- 10/3/2019
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
While shooting Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, there were two separate scripts labeled “Code Red” and “Code Blue”. Code Red was the real script and Code Blue was the fake one. This is one of the things Marvel did to help prevent real details from the film from leaking out.
Well, Marvel Studio has released a very fun new featurette that brings these fake alternate script scenes to life in animated form. These fake scenes include Loki projecting himself as a way to escape Thanos; a strange puppet version of Gamora giving Thanos the Soul Stone; a scene where Vision reboots after Thanos rips the Infinity Stone from his head; and there’s a scene of Thanos falling asleep after Thor smashes him with Stormbreaker.
These are some of the main fake scenes that were written for that Code Blue script, but it gives you an idea of some...
Well, Marvel Studio has released a very fun new featurette that brings these fake alternate script scenes to life in animated form. These fake scenes include Loki projecting himself as a way to escape Thanos; a strange puppet version of Gamora giving Thanos the Soul Stone; a scene where Vision reboots after Thanos rips the Infinity Stone from his head; and there’s a scene of Thanos falling asleep after Thor smashes him with Stormbreaker.
These are some of the main fake scenes that were written for that Code Blue script, but it gives you an idea of some...
- 7/30/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Directed by Emiko Hiramatsu and starring Erika Toda, the feature is based on a true story.
Japan’s Gaga is launching international sales at Filmart on Organ, the second feature from Emiko Hiramatsu (Seven Days Of Sunflower And Puppy) who worked with Yoji Yamada as co-screenwriter and assistant director on films including What A Wonderful Family!.
Starring Erika Toda (Code Blue) and Sakurako Ohara (The Liar And His Lover), the film is based on a true story from the Second World War when young nursery school teachers evacuated dozens of children from Tokyo to save their lives. Under the threat of bombing,...
Japan’s Gaga is launching international sales at Filmart on Organ, the second feature from Emiko Hiramatsu (Seven Days Of Sunflower And Puppy) who worked with Yoji Yamada as co-screenwriter and assistant director on films including What A Wonderful Family!.
Starring Erika Toda (Code Blue) and Sakurako Ohara (The Liar And His Lover), the film is based on a true story from the Second World War when young nursery school teachers evacuated dozens of children from Tokyo to save their lives. Under the threat of bombing,...
- 3/17/2019
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
In order to make accurate predictions about the potential Cannes Film Festival lineup, it’s first important to explore which films definitely won’t make the cut. The glamorous French gathering is notorious for waiting until the last minute before locking in every slot for its Official Selection. That includes competition titles, out of competition titles, a small midnight section and the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Cannes announces the bulk of its selections in Paris on April 13, but until then, there are plenty of ways to make educated guesses. Much of the reporting surrounding the upcoming festival selection is simply lists of films expected to come out this year. However, certain movies are definitely not going to the festival for various reasons.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
That’s why our own list of potentials doesn’t include “Image Et Parole,” Jean-Luc Godard’s followup to “Goodbye to Language,” which sales agent Wild Bunch now anticipates as a 2018 title.
- 3/31/2017
- by Chris O'Falt, Eric Kohn, Jude Dry, Kate Erbland, Steve Greene and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Beyond Words
Director: Urszula Antoniak
Writer: Urszula Antoniak
Polish director Urszula Antoniak won Best First Feature (and several other prizes) at Locarno for her 2009 debut Nothing Personal, then followed that up with a pair of controversially themed titles, such as 2011’s Code Blue (kind of a female perspective synonym for Franco’s later film, Chronic) and 2014’s Nude Area.
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Director: Urszula Antoniak
Writer: Urszula Antoniak
Polish director Urszula Antoniak won Best First Feature (and several other prizes) at Locarno for her 2009 debut Nothing Personal, then followed that up with a pair of controversially themed titles, such as 2011’s Code Blue (kind of a female perspective synonym for Franco’s later film, Chronic) and 2014’s Nude Area.
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- 1/3/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Antoniak’s third picture revolves around intense lesbian affair between two Amsterdam teenagers.
Paris-based sales company Reel Suspects has acquired international rights to Urszula Antoniak’s Nude Area, an interracial, lesbian love story between two teenagers living in Amsterdam, one from a wealthy, secular background, the other poor and Muslim.
“It’s a very ambitious feature, without dialogue, that presents the strong and ambiguous relationship between two teenagers, who move from desire and fantasies to consumption,” said Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina.
“It has strong distribution potential and the absence of dialogue makes it even more universal,” he adds.
The film revolves around Naomi, a beautiful teenager living in the upscale Amsterdam-South neighbourhood, who develops a crush on a Muslim girl, called Fama, who hails from a poorer district in the west of the city.
Intertwined with the tale of seduction, Antoniak explores lesbianism and female desire in general through a series of chapters headed with words...
Paris-based sales company Reel Suspects has acquired international rights to Urszula Antoniak’s Nude Area, an interracial, lesbian love story between two teenagers living in Amsterdam, one from a wealthy, secular background, the other poor and Muslim.
“It’s a very ambitious feature, without dialogue, that presents the strong and ambiguous relationship between two teenagers, who move from desire and fantasies to consumption,” said Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina.
“It has strong distribution potential and the absence of dialogue makes it even more universal,” he adds.
The film revolves around Naomi, a beautiful teenager living in the upscale Amsterdam-South neighbourhood, who develops a crush on a Muslim girl, called Fama, who hails from a poorer district in the west of the city.
Intertwined with the tale of seduction, Antoniak explores lesbianism and female desire in general through a series of chapters headed with words...
- 11/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
#59. Urszula Antoniak’s Nude Area
Gist: A project that’s sounds typically Antoniakian (right down to the title) – albeit less suffocating and more optimistic and spirited than usual – Nude Area sets out to present a hypnotic portrait of female seduction featuring Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam as she develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game of love, seduction and attraction.
Prediction: This could go either Un Certain Regard or Fortnight, the latter being where her previous film – an ugly, sterile, and empty provocation known as Code Blue – played in 2011. If she’s cooled it on the angry naked red paint metaphors and explicit, abusive sex scenes, I see no reason why this wouldn’t get the ‘upgrade’ into the Official Selection.
Gist: A project that’s sounds typically Antoniakian (right down to the title) – albeit less suffocating and more optimistic and spirited than usual – Nude Area sets out to present a hypnotic portrait of female seduction featuring Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam as she develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game of love, seduction and attraction.
Prediction: This could go either Un Certain Regard or Fortnight, the latter being where her previous film – an ugly, sterile, and empty provocation known as Code Blue – played in 2011. If she’s cooled it on the angry naked red paint metaphors and explicit, abusive sex scenes, I see no reason why this wouldn’t get the ‘upgrade’ into the Official Selection.
- 4/4/2013
- by Blake Williams
- IONCINEMA.com
Lotte Verbeek rests easy in Nothing Personal.
Olive Films will release the 2009 drama Nothing Personal, starring Lotte Verbeek and Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta), on DVD on Oct. 4 for the list price of $29.95.
Written and directed by Urszula Antoniak (Code Blue), the movie focuses on Anne (Verbeek), an enigmatic beauty who drifts from town to town as she hitches rides across the Irish countryside. One day, she comes across an isolated cabin and strikes up an uneasy relationship with its owner (Rea). Haunted by their pasts, each has something to offer the other – he, the solace of his cabin; she, the embrace of female companionship.
A festival favorite across Europe, the Dutch/Irish co-production picked up six awards at the prestigious San Locarno Film Festival, including Best First Film and Best Actress. The film subsequently received a well-reviewed, limited release in theaters in the U.S.
No bonus features have been announced for the DVD.
Olive Films will release the 2009 drama Nothing Personal, starring Lotte Verbeek and Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta), on DVD on Oct. 4 for the list price of $29.95.
Written and directed by Urszula Antoniak (Code Blue), the movie focuses on Anne (Verbeek), an enigmatic beauty who drifts from town to town as she hitches rides across the Irish countryside. One day, she comes across an isolated cabin and strikes up an uneasy relationship with its owner (Rea). Haunted by their pasts, each has something to offer the other – he, the solace of his cabin; she, the embrace of female companionship.
A festival favorite across Europe, the Dutch/Irish co-production picked up six awards at the prestigious San Locarno Film Festival, including Best First Film and Best Actress. The film subsequently received a well-reviewed, limited release in theaters in the U.S.
No bonus features have been announced for the DVD.
- 7/26/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Updated through 5/28.
The titles below will take you to the roundups, that is, the coverage of the coverage of each film screening in the 2011 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Click the names after the titles for our own reviews, whether they be quick takes or longer considerations. And finally, pointers to assessments of this year's edition, made both before and after the awards are announced, will collect at the bottom of this page.
Competition
Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In.
Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance. Daniel Kasman.
Alain Cavalier's Pater.
Joseph Cedar's Footnote.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike. Daniel Kasman.
Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist.
Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre. Daniel Kasman.
Naomi Kawase's Hanezu.
Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty.
Maïwenn's Poliss. Daniel Kasman.
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.
The titles below will take you to the roundups, that is, the coverage of the coverage of each film screening in the 2011 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Click the names after the titles for our own reviews, whether they be quick takes or longer considerations. And finally, pointers to assessments of this year's edition, made both before and after the awards are announced, will collect at the bottom of this page.
Competition
Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In.
Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance. Daniel Kasman.
Alain Cavalier's Pater.
Joseph Cedar's Footnote.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike. Daniel Kasman.
Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist.
Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre. Daniel Kasman.
Naomi Kawase's Hanezu.
Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty.
Maïwenn's Poliss. Daniel Kasman.
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.
- 5/28/2011
- MUBI
"Code Blue is the film to which I have had the strongest negative reaction of any film I've seen at the festival so far," blogs Barbara Scharres for the Chicago Sun-Times, "but I wasn't alone in that. There were walkouts throughout, but about ten minutes from the end, a large part of the audience simply decided that they'd had enough and started streaming out. I've never seen anything to match it at Cannes. So many people were leaving that the guards had to prop open the exit doors although the film wasn't over…. I ponder what life experience, if any, this film came out of."
"An oddly translated notice posted outside Cannes Directors' Fortnight screenings of Code Blue warns that the film may 'hurt audience's feelings.'" David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter: "But while the final scenes erupt into explicit sex and ugly violence (or ugly sex and explicit...
"An oddly translated notice posted outside Cannes Directors' Fortnight screenings of Code Blue warns that the film may 'hurt audience's feelings.'" David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter: "But while the final scenes erupt into explicit sex and ugly violence (or ugly sex and explicit...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
Cannes Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury President Michel Gondry, Copyright C. Fitte/Getty Images
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
- 5/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Cannes Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury President Michel Gondry, Copyright C. Fitte/Getty Images
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
Michel Gondry and his jury have announced the student filmmaker winners of Cannes’ Cinéfondation prizes for 2011.
In a ceremony at the Buñuel Theatre, the following films were awarded ahead of a screening of their films.
First Prize:
Der Brief (The Letter)
directed by Doroteya Droumeva
dffb, Germany
Second Prize:
Drari
directed by Kamal Lazraq
La fémis, France
Third Prize:
Ya-gan-bi-hang (Fly by Night)
directed by Son Tae-gyum
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
The awarded films will receive € 15,000 for the First Prize, € 11,250 for the Second and € 7,500 for the Third.
In the official correspondence, the press office noted the following about the Cinéfondation: Created in 1998, the Cinéfondation Selection has showcased student films by directors who are back in Cannes this year with a feature film: Frederikke Aspöck (Labrador), Catalin Mitulescu (Loverboy), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (Trabalhar Cansa), Roland Edzard...
- 5/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Victoria Charters
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Day six of the festival.
I woke at 4 a.m., bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I usually average four to six hours of sleep each night during festivals — some of my über-human fellow nomads can exist on less, buoyed with the energy of the occasion.
At Cannes, as is the case at all of the big festivals I have worked or attended, there’s a buzz from all that is happening, the air supercharged from the excitement of new releases, meetings with co-workers and/or potential partners, brushes with strangers, invitations to the incredible parties and the millions of dollars of deals still being made in and around the Marché.
If you are into stats, here they are for Cannes 2011: 4,200 titles, 15,000 screenings, 60 territories, 2,500 distributors and 450 sales agents, all revolving around 10 days of star-studded red carpet events.
At 10 a.m. on the terrace of the Grand Hotel,...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Day six of the festival.
I woke at 4 a.m., bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I usually average four to six hours of sleep each night during festivals — some of my über-human fellow nomads can exist on less, buoyed with the energy of the occasion.
At Cannes, as is the case at all of the big festivals I have worked or attended, there’s a buzz from all that is happening, the air supercharged from the excitement of new releases, meetings with co-workers and/or potential partners, brushes with strangers, invitations to the incredible parties and the millions of dollars of deals still being made in and around the Marché.
If you are into stats, here they are for Cannes 2011: 4,200 titles, 15,000 screenings, 60 territories, 2,500 distributors and 450 sales agents, all revolving around 10 days of star-studded red carpet events.
At 10 a.m. on the terrace of the Grand Hotel,...
- 5/17/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Victoria Charters
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Day six of the festival.
I woke at 4 a.m., bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I usually average four to six hours of sleep each night during festivals — some of my über-human fellow nomads can exist on less, buoyed with the energy of the occasion.
At Cannes, as is the case at all of the big festivals I have worked or attended, there’s a buzz from all that is happening, the air supercharged from the excitement of new releases, meetings with co-workers and/or potential partners, brushes with strangers, invitations to the incredible parties and the millions of dollars of deals still being made in and around the Marché.
If you are into stats, here they are for Cannes 2011: 4,200 titles, 15,000 screenings, 60 territories, 2,500 distributors and 450 sales agents, all revolving around 10 days of star-studded red carpet events.
At 10 a.m. on the terrace of the Grand Hotel,...
(from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival)
Day six of the festival.
I woke at 4 a.m., bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I usually average four to six hours of sleep each night during festivals — some of my über-human fellow nomads can exist on less, buoyed with the energy of the occasion.
At Cannes, as is the case at all of the big festivals I have worked or attended, there’s a buzz from all that is happening, the air supercharged from the excitement of new releases, meetings with co-workers and/or potential partners, brushes with strangers, invitations to the incredible parties and the millions of dollars of deals still being made in and around the Marché.
If you are into stats, here they are for Cannes 2011: 4,200 titles, 15,000 screenings, 60 territories, 2,500 distributors and 450 sales agents, all revolving around 10 days of star-studded red carpet events.
At 10 a.m. on the terrace of the Grand Hotel,...
- 5/17/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Film people (this writer included) tend to be jaded and bitter, always ready to scoff at teenagers who can’t wait to see the next Twilight or are counting the days to the new Batman movie. Yet, film catnip such as a new Terrence Malick makes even the most serious filmgoer wait and gasp at the sight of a ticket for The Tree of Life. That’s why it was very shocking to hear the booing at the press screening, among, yes, a few applauses and mostly baffled silence. It was going to be impossible to survive such hype to any movie, let alone one with such flaws as the fifth film in 40 years directed by the maestro.
Yes, it is one of the most stunning achievements in image and sound in the medium’s history; unfortunately it is so ambitious and almost every frame is loaded with such heavy symbolism,...
Yes, it is one of the most stunning achievements in image and sound in the medium’s history; unfortunately it is so ambitious and almost every frame is loaded with such heavy symbolism,...
- 5/17/2011
- by Ed Lucatero
- SoundOnSight
The film that cautioned audiences it may hurt their feelings did exactly that, the visceral finale of Urszula Antoniak's Code Blue sending members of the debut audience scurrying for the exits in droves as the final burst of violence and degradation played out on screen. The reaction was clearly expected, at least to a degree, the big question is why some chose to exit early. Were they offended by the film's graphic use of hot-button issues - euthanasia, rape and suicide all factor in - or, equally possible, had they simply reached their limit for what is surely one of the bleakest portrayals of human need ever put on screen?Bien de Moor is Marian, a woman on the far side of middle age living...
- 5/16/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Regardless what larger themes or shifting styles that are discovered or get attached to this year's Cannes batch, one of the major conversation starters is the prominence of global female filmmakers at the festival. There are 22 feature films by female directors (and I'm not even including the short films) which should be a record for any festival in recent memory. We have renowned auteurs Naomi Kawase and Lynne Ramsay to actress-turned-directors, Jodie Foster, Maiwenn, Nadine Labaki, Eva Ionesco, Hagar Ben Asher. Among the 22, with have a dozen or so from first time filmmakers including Julia Leigh (see below) whose first film is in the official competition and comes with the blessing from fellow Australian and Palme d'Or winner Jane Campion. See the 22 names below. The Official Competition Naomi Kawase, Hanezu No Tsuki Julia Leigh, Sleeping Beauty Maiwenn, Polisse Lynne Ramsay, We Need to Talk about Kevin Out of Competition Jodie Foster,...
- 5/10/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
A trailer has been released for Code Blue, the second film by director Urszula Antoniak (Nothing Personal). The film was selected for the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Director’s Fortnight section. Urszula Antoniak’s first film, Nothing Personal, won prizes at the Locarno and Seville film festivals and won four Golden Calf prizes during the Netherlands Film Festival in 2009.
The film was produced by Idtv Film and Family Affair Films, in co-production with Vpro and Zentropa. Wild Bunch will release the film in cinemas on 8 September.
Here is how the programmers from Cannes describe the film:
Marian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of common voyeurism, she becomes fascinated by him.
The film was produced by Idtv Film and Family Affair Films, in co-production with Vpro and Zentropa. Wild Bunch will release the film in cinemas on 8 September.
Here is how the programmers from Cannes describe the film:
Marian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of common voyeurism, she becomes fascinated by him.
- 5/10/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Honestly, I'm not even sure what to call Urszula Antoniak's Code Blue. Is it a twisted drama? Some sort of arthouse thriller? It's that sort of refusal to play by any sort of clear genre rules that makes the freshly released trailer so compelling and compelling is absolutely the right word. Here's how the programmers at the Director's Fortnight describe it:Marian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of common voyeurism, she becomes fascinated by him. Faced with the fragility of these newfound emotions, Marian surrenders to...
- 5/9/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Updated through 5/9.
Along with the trailer for Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives, another's just appeared for Kim Ki-duk's Arirang. Both will be screening in Un Certain Regard and, if you're checking the entry rounding up all the current news on the lineup of the Official Selection, you'll see, first, that it's being continuously updated (as are the entries on Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight), and second, another trailer: the one for Na Hong-jin's Yellow Sea. And of course, you've seen the trailers for Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Let's have a look at a few more.
Here's one for Joseph Cedar's Footnote:
And here's another and another.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike:
Update, 5/9: The Playlist has two clips.
Julie Leigh's Sleeping Beauty:
Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli...
Along with the trailer for Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives, another's just appeared for Kim Ki-duk's Arirang. Both will be screening in Un Certain Regard and, if you're checking the entry rounding up all the current news on the lineup of the Official Selection, you'll see, first, that it's being continuously updated (as are the entries on Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight), and second, another trailer: the one for Na Hong-jin's Yellow Sea. And of course, you've seen the trailers for Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Let's have a look at a few more.
Here's one for Joseph Cedar's Footnote:
And here's another and another.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike:
Update, 5/9: The Playlist has two clips.
Julie Leigh's Sleeping Beauty:
Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy's La Fee (The Fairy) will open this year's Directors' Fortnight on May 12 and Bouli Lanners's Les Géants (The Giants) will close it on May 22. Here's how the full lineup of 25 films pans out.
The Fairy. From MK2: "Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true, then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who by then has fallen in love with Fiona searches for her everywhere and eventually finds her. In the psychiatric hospital where she has been interned. The filmmakers behind the critically acclaimed Iceberg and Rumba are back to enchant the world."
Karim Ainouz's O abismo prateado.
Urszula Antoniak's Code Blue.
The Fairy. From MK2: "Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true, then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who by then has fallen in love with Fiona searches for her everywhere and eventually finds her. In the psychiatric hospital where she has been interned. The filmmakers behind the critically acclaimed Iceberg and Rumba are back to enchant the world."
Karim Ainouz's O abismo prateado.
Urszula Antoniak's Code Blue.
- 4/21/2011
- MUBI
The final Cannes sidebar of new feature films to unveil its lineup, the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), announced 25 features this morning - 21 competing, and 4 special screenings. This year's edition is especially heavy on European films, which take up a whopping 17 of the 21 competing slots. Just like the Critic's Week selection, we've got a majority of debut films and films by little known directors, but also a handful of names that most cinephiles will already be familiar with. This is, of course, part of the pleasure of discovery in these sections: the ability to be taken completely by surprise (ie. last year's Two Gates of Sleep and Le Quattro Volte) that you don't get with finding a masterpiece in the Competition. The Fortnight runs parallel with the Official Competition, opening on May 12th and ending on the 21st. Looking at the lineup, there are a number of names that we saw coming,...
- 4/19/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The lineup for the Cannes film festival has been finalized with the announcement of the Directors’ Fortnight lineup, which includes Guilty of Romance by one of my personal favourite directors, Sion Sono. The Directors’ Fortnight is an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The section was created in 1969 after the events of May 1968, in which the Cannes festival was canceled in solidarity with striking workers.
The Directors’ Fortnight showcases a programme of shorts and feature films as well as documentaries from all over the world.
Here’s the complete list of titles:
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
“Apres le sud,” France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret
“Blue Bird,” Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe
“Breathing,” Austria, Karl Markovics
“Code Blue,” Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak
“Corpo celeste,” Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher
“End of Silence,” France-Austria, Roland Edzard
“La Fee,” Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)
“Les Geants,” Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)
“Impardonnables,...
The Directors’ Fortnight showcases a programme of shorts and feature films as well as documentaries from all over the world.
Here’s the complete list of titles:
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
“Apres le sud,” France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret
“Blue Bird,” Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe
“Breathing,” Austria, Karl Markovics
“Code Blue,” Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak
“Corpo celeste,” Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher
“End of Silence,” France-Austria, Roland Edzard
“La Fee,” Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)
“Les Geants,” Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)
“Impardonnables,...
- 4/19/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
We got the first round of Cannes Film Festival line-up last week, then the Critics’ Week contenders yesterday. Today, the line-up for Director’s Fortnight and Short Film competition has been released. Check out the line-ups below via Deadline and Twitch. Twitch also provides images for Irish director Rebecca Daly‘s debut in the Director’s Fortnight film The Other Side Of Sleep.
It’s worth noting that jury president Michel Gondry will award the Short Film Palme d’Or on the last day of the fest, May 22nd. Bright Star director Jane Campion and Lynne Ramsay, who directed this year’s competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, both got their start in this competition. Check out the line-ups below and come back for our coverage straight from the fest.
Short Film:
Completing the list of the Official Selection of the 64th Festival de Cannes, and composed this...
It’s worth noting that jury president Michel Gondry will award the Short Film Palme d’Or on the last day of the fest, May 22nd. Bright Star director Jane Campion and Lynne Ramsay, who directed this year’s competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, both got their start in this competition. Check out the line-ups below and come back for our coverage straight from the fest.
Short Film:
Completing the list of the Official Selection of the 64th Festival de Cannes, and composed this...
- 4/19/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Vimukthi Jayasundara
An Indo-France co-production, Chhatrak (Mushrooms) directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara is a part of the official lineup of Cannes Directors Fortnight.
Co-produced by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay from India, Mushrooms is Vimukthi Jayasundara’s third feature film. His debut film The Forsaken Land had won the Camera d’Or for best debut feature at Cannes in 2005.
The complete lineup for Directors Fortnight includes 25 films out of which 6 are first films making them eligible to compete for Camera d’Or.
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
Apres le sud, France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret
Blue Bird, Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe
Breathing, Austria, Karl Markovics
Code Blue, Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak
Corpo celeste, Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher
End of Silence, France-Austria, Roland Edzard
La Fee, Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)
Les Geants, Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)
Impardonnables, France, Andre Techine
The Island, Bulgaria-Sweden, Kamen Kalev
Iris in Bloom, France, Valerie Mrejen
Joan Captive,...
An Indo-France co-production, Chhatrak (Mushrooms) directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara is a part of the official lineup of Cannes Directors Fortnight.
Co-produced by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay from India, Mushrooms is Vimukthi Jayasundara’s third feature film. His debut film The Forsaken Land had won the Camera d’Or for best debut feature at Cannes in 2005.
The complete lineup for Directors Fortnight includes 25 films out of which 6 are first films making them eligible to compete for Camera d’Or.
Directors’ Fortnight Lineup
Apres le sud, France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret
Blue Bird, Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe
Breathing, Austria, Karl Markovics
Code Blue, Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak
Corpo celeste, Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher
End of Silence, France-Austria, Roland Edzard
La Fee, Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)
Les Geants, Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)
Impardonnables, France, Andre Techine
The Island, Bulgaria-Sweden, Kamen Kalev
Iris in Bloom, France, Valerie Mrejen
Joan Captive,...
- 4/19/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Programme includes veteran film-maker André Téchiné, plus 14 female directors – but English-language cinema is sidelined
The lineup for the Cannes film festival has been finalised with the announcement of the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week programmes. The two strands operate independently of the Palme d'Or competition that was announced last week.
Few of the selected film-makers look likely to excite the paparazzi on the Cannes red carpet. The best known name in the Directors' Fortnight selection is probably veteran French film-maker André Téchiné with an adaptation of Philippe Djian's novel Impardonnables, about a writer whose daughter disappears, while the Critics' Week finds room for new films by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols and Jonathan Caouette, maker of Tarnation.
One title that seems likely to spark controversy, however, is the Critics' Week selection Hanotenet (aka The Slut), directed by and starring Israeli Hagar Ben Asher, about a woman compulsively seeking sexual gratification.
The lineup for the Cannes film festival has been finalised with the announcement of the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week programmes. The two strands operate independently of the Palme d'Or competition that was announced last week.
Few of the selected film-makers look likely to excite the paparazzi on the Cannes red carpet. The best known name in the Directors' Fortnight selection is probably veteran French film-maker André Téchiné with an adaptation of Philippe Djian's novel Impardonnables, about a writer whose daughter disappears, while the Critics' Week finds room for new films by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols and Jonathan Caouette, maker of Tarnation.
One title that seems likely to spark controversy, however, is the Critics' Week selection Hanotenet (aka The Slut), directed by and starring Israeli Hagar Ben Asher, about a woman compulsively seeking sexual gratification.
- 4/19/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The complete lineup for the Director's Fortnight lineup at Cannes 2011 has been announced and joining Sion Sono's Guilty of Romance are films about a sleepwalking woman hunting down her mother's killer and a wheelchair bound man who hijacks a plane using a pair of hand grenades tucked into his adult diaper.Typically the edgier of the Cannes sidebar programs the Fortnight this year is dominated by French and Belgian titles with Sono's title being one of only three Asian selections.Here's the complete list of titles: Directors' Fortnight Lineup "Apres le sud," France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret "Blue Bird," Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe "Breathing," Austria, Karl Markovics "Code Blue," Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak "Corpo celeste," Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher "End of Silence," France-Austria, Roland Edzard "La Fee," Belgium-France,...
- 4/19/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Linda Cardellini plays a soldier who returns home from a tour of duty and has trouble adjusting in artist-turned-director Liza Johnson’s debut feature Return. John Slattery and Michael Shannon co-star. Return is the only U.S. movie selected to play in the prestigious Cannes sidebar Directors' Fortnight, announced this morning in Paris. Johnson is one of several female directors injecting a dose of estrogen into this year’s 25-film lineup. Other women directors include Ireland's Rebecca Daly, whose first film The Other Side of Sleep tells the story of a sleepwalker in a rural town searching for her mother’s killer; Polish filmmaker Urszula Antoniak (Code Blue); Canada’s Isabelle Lavigne and Stephane Thibault (At Night They Dance); and Morocco’s Leila Kilani (Sur La Planche). Directors’ Fortnight runs May 12-22. The lineup: -- Apres le sud (France) - Jean-Jacques Jauffret -- Blue Bird (Belgium) - Gust Van den Berghe...
- 4/19/2011
- by TIM ADLER in London
- Deadline London
We're about 36 hours away from Cannes Film Festival's big unveiling of the 2011 line-up and while the Main Comp should bare very little surprises (see the math below), the one title whose status is still a mystery and could break into the 20 or so titles is Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux. Literally translated as "Light After Darkness", Reygadas' semi-autobiographical feature was filmed in cities where the helmer has spent portions of his life: Mexico, England, Spain and Belgium. What this amount to be is the type of film that no pre-festival synopsis will do it justice. If included, I can't wait for that 8:00 in the morning press screening. Earlier this week, Variety threw in Naomi Kawase's name into the mix. Titled Hanezu no Tsuki, her film is set in the Asuka period which was known for its significant artistic, social, and political transformations - we're talking only 500 years A.
- 4/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The Palais des Festivals, which is where I watched all of the press screenings
It seems there have been a lot of articles speculating as to which films will be showing at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival this year, each of them pretty much naming the same films. However, the only film confirmed is Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris which will open the fest. The rest is simply speculation and rumor, but now the most comprehensive and seemingly "in the know" list has surfaced.
Of the films currently expected to hit the Croisette, but obviously in no way confirmed yet seem to be among the most likely, are Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, Gus Van Sant's Restless and Lars von Trier's Melancholia.
Of course, those are the big name features. The films that draw the...
It seems there have been a lot of articles speculating as to which films will be showing at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival this year, each of them pretty much naming the same films. However, the only film confirmed is Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris which will open the fest. The rest is simply speculation and rumor, but now the most comprehensive and seemingly "in the know" list has surfaced.
Of the films currently expected to hit the Croisette, but obviously in no way confirmed yet seem to be among the most likely, are Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, Gus Van Sant's Restless and Lars von Trier's Melancholia.
Of course, those are the big name features. The films that draw the...
- 3/22/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Wkw is definitely not ready. Pedro isn't feeling the pressure to deliver and according to Screen Daily, Terence Davies, Andrea Arnold and Philippe Garrel would apparently still be stuck in post and would be tipped for a Fall premiere. The trade published their list of possible titles of which you'll find plenty already mentioned on our 60 Predictions list six weeks back (which is worth checking out as there are several titles that Sd don't mention in their report including, Giorgos Lanthimos' Alps). We'll focus on the titles that they mentioned and that we didn't. Judging by the already established relationship that the Croisette has with Kung Fu Panda, I don't think that this is a Pixar year in Cannes (they did show Up). We should see part II of the Panda franchise and not Cars 2 which receives a release a month later (way too early). Depending on the...
- 3/21/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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